Drinking a bottle of wine per week is equivalent to smoking five to 10 cigarettes a week

Morning Medtalks With Dr KK

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New Delhi, April 06, 2019 :

1. Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA): A new document, published in Circulation helps physicians better recognise patients with this condition. It is especially important for women, who represent a disproportionate number of MINOCA cases. Some patients who have chest pain and elevated heart enzymes, but do not have severe narrowing of their arteries are told that they did not have a heart attack, and this is often an incorrect diagnosis. As a result, doctors often send these patients home without protective medications and don’t tell them about preventive measures.

2. Drinking a bottle of wine per week is equivalent to smoking five to 10 cigarettes a week when it comes to increasing the lifetime risk of developing cancer. For women, consumption of one bottle of wine per week increased the absolute lifetime risk of cancer to the same extent as smoking 10 cigarettes a week, largely driven by a heightened risk of breast cancer. Among men, drinking a bottle of wine per week boosted the absolute lifetime risk of cancer equivalent to smoking five cigarettes. The findings were published online March 28 in BMC Public Health.

3. The FDA expanded the indications of palbociclib (Ibrance) on Thursday to include breast cancer in men with advanced or metastatic hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative disease.

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4. Oral contraceptive use has been associated with a reduced overall risk of ovarian cancer, and new research presented at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting found that this protection extended to the most fatal forms of the disease.

5. Young, healthy obese individuals who consumed olive oil at least once a week had platelets that were less likely to clot when exposed to platelet-activation agonists. Ruina Zhang, a medical student at NYU School of Medicine, New York City, presented these findings in a poster at the American Heart Association (AHA)

6. Eating too much processed food can increase inflammation, which impairs the production of ATP and energy. Or, if you’re older and your appetite isn’t what it used to be, you may not give your body the calories and fuel it needs to function. On the flip side, if you’re eating too much food at one time, that can cause blood sugar spikes and lead to fatigue.The fatty acids in protein-rich foods also help boost ATP. And aim for smaller meals with snacks in between to provide your body with a steady supply of nutrients and fewer blood sugar spikes.

7. A lack of sleep increases cortisol and also promotes inflammation. If sleep issues are caused by sleep apnoea (pauses in breathing during sleep), the dips in blood oxygen levels lowers ATP and energy. Sleep hygiene: go to bed and wake up at the same time each day, and keep your room cool, quiet, and free of electronics, which stimulate your brain.

8. Evidence suggests that people with mild cognitive impairment who do aerobic exercise three times per week and follow the DASH diet experience an improvement in executive function

9. About 10% of people report muscle aches when taking statins. In some cases, other health conditions such as arthritis, obesity, or just aging may be to blame. Doing exercise or yard work can cause muscle aches

10.People who sleep less than six hours per night or who have poor quality sleep may be more likely to develop early atherosclerosis in the arteries of the neck and upper leg.

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